Re: PSA: If you are C/C++ developer, use cppcheck

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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:17:00PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In the last few days, I have been running cppcheck on quite a few programs
> including systemd, transmission, libvirt,  ndjbdns etc and cppcheck has
> found real and potential bugs (null pointer dereferences, uninitialized
> variables, memory & resource leaks etc) in each of them.  I have reported
> the ones I found and several developers have already fixed the issues.   A
> couple of examples

The issues reported against libvirt all appear to be false positives.
Not entirely surprising since we already have coverity run against
libvirt code nightly.

Of course, if you don't have access to coverity then it is likely to be
worth using cppcheck

Regards,
Daniel
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